{"id":259,"date":"2020-03-30T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/?p=259"},"modified":"2020-03-09T08:36:25","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T15:36:25","slug":"aristotle-and-the-romantic-manifesto-by-robert-mayhew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/2020\/03\/30\/aristotle-and-the-romantic-manifesto-by-robert-mayhew\/","title":{"rendered":"Aristotle and the Romantic Manifesto by Robert Mayhew"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> In the Romantic Manifesto, Ayn Rand reports that before she heard the name \u201cAristotle,\u201d she had accepted his principle \u201cthat fiction is of greater philosophical importance than history, because history represents things only as they are, while fiction represents them \u2018as they might be and ought to be.\u2019\u201d The aim of this talk is to explain the role of this principle in Aristotle\u2019s esthetics and Ayn Rand\u2019s, and to note other parallels between the Poetics and Romantic Manifesto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recorded live on June 27, 2019 in Cleveland, OH. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Romantic Manifesto, Ayn Rand reports that before she heard the name \u201cAristotle,\u201d she had accepted his principle \u201cthat fiction is of greater philosophical importance than history, because history represents things only as they are, while fiction represents them \u2018as they might be and ought to be.\u2019\u201d The aim of this talk is to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[200,309,7,13,554,461,216,12,219,158],"class_list":["post-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","hentry","category-podcast","tag-aristotle","tag-art","tag-ayn-rand","tag-ethics","tag-fiction","tag-history","tag-life","tag-philosophy","tag-sense-of-life","tag-values","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions\/260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}